I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff." "He's been lying in his room so long and he's always been so afraid of his back that it has made him queer," said Mary.

"He knows a good many things out of books but he doesn't know anything else.

He says he has been too ill to notice things and he hates going out of doors and hates gardens and gardeners.

But he likes to hear about this garden because it is a secret.

I daren't tell him much but he said he wanted to see it." "Us'll have him out here sometime for sure," said Dickon.